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Monthly General Meeting

NYPC’s July General Meeting

A Social Time on Governors Island

Saturday, July 24, from 4 to 6:30 PM

A Different Day in a Different Fun Place

The really Fun Free Ferry ride leaves every 30 minutes from a terminal right near the Staten Island Ferry. Last ferry back to Manhattan leaves the island at 7 PM. Take the 3:30 PM from Manhattan to arrive at 4:00pm or come earlier if you like.

Bring a picnic or buy food on the island. NYPC will have an information table on the island starting at 4:00 pm to welcome visitors and encourage new members. Volunteers are needed to staff the table. Contact Lenny Ginsburg at leonardginsburg at earthlink dot net, leave a message at 212 643-7005, or, just show up. (Remember Woody Allen’s great quote “Eighty percent of success is showing up”.)

Governors Island is a delightful place to enjoy the summer's breezes off New York's glorious waterways, stroll or bicycle, photograph, or just relax. We hope that NYPC members will also find it a pleasant way to meet other members, network, and just visit with each other.


As an added treat, and to encourage photographers, Phyllis Silver is sponsoring a photo contest in memory of Stan Silver, former president of NYPC. The prize for the "best" photo taken on Governors Island will be a free one-year (individual) membership in NYPC.

Earlier in the day you might like to take part in the “City of Water Day Festival”. This is a free event from 10am to 4pm that includes free harbor boat tours, children’s events, and other human powered boaters such as rowers, and paddlers. For more, see www.cityofwaterday.org.

Photos of the island taken in the summer of 2006.

GETTING THERE

For info on ferries and Governors Island see
www.govisland.com/visit_the_island/directions.asp.

Manhattan Ferries: Free ferries run between Manhattan and Governors Island on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Manhattan ferries leave from the Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street) in Lower Manhattan.

Brooklyn Ferries: Free ferries run from Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 on Saturdays and Sundays only. Pier 6 is located at the foot of Atlantic Avenue at the corner of Furman Street

by William Ginsberg
NYPC Program Chairman



Meetings

NYPC holds our General Meeting on the third Thursday of the month at 6:00 PM (normally, but not always). We usually meet in the Auditorium of PS 41 on 11th Street just west of Sixth Avenue (116 West 11th Street). See a Google Map* of the area. During the summer months we meet in other air conditioned locations. 

NYPC general meetings are free and open to the public.

Previous Meetings

See what you missed at our previous general meetings.

 

Some of our members are new to computers, while others are computer pros. Some of our meetings feature NYPC members who share their special areas of expertise such as Genealogy, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Wireless Networking, Palm PDA’s, and Treo Phones, Antivirus Protection, and Windows Tips and Traps.

Outside Speakers have included, Jeff Hawkins inventor of the Palm Pilot, David Pogue NY Times columnist, Peter Norton, the man behind Norton Utilities, Bill Gates – well you know, Andy Grove CEO of Intel, Katrin Eismann, Photoshop Diva and author, Eric Raymond author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. PC Magazine’s Michael Miller, Bill Machrone, Alfred Poor and John Dvorak have also spoken at our General Meeting.

Many computer companies have sent representatives to our meetings including: Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Compaq, Symantec, Lotus, Novel, Trend Micro, Intuit, Olympus Cameras, Corel, Color Vision, Pro Graphics, 4G Data Systems, Palm, Handspring, Tekserve, and Apple computers.

If there is a topic you'd like covered, send an email to Bill Ginsberg at programs@nypc.org.

PS41 is accessible by subway (A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, V to West 4th Street, or, 1, 2, 3, 9 and L to 14th Street and Seventh Avenue) and by Path (take the 33rd Street line to the Ninth Street Station). 

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